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edit Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from Canon law into List of national legal systems. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution
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October 2022
editHello. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed your recent edit to Christianity does not have an edit summary. You can use the edit summary field to explain your reasoning for an edit, or to provide a description of what the edit changes. Summaries save time for other editors and reduce the chances your edit will be misunderstood. For some edits a summary may be quite brief.
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Welcome to Wikipedia. There's lots to learn, but don't let that be a barrier to contributing. We're glad that you're here. Senator2029 【talk】 21:01, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
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editHello Kfager1! Your additions to Friday prayer have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, it's important to understand and adhere to guidelines about using information from sources to prevent copyright and plagiarism issues. Here are the key points:
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December 2022
editHello, I'm Tgeorgescu. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Christianity, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. tgeorgescu (talk) 18:20, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
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